Sorry to hear of your accident ann, mend quickly. Ann, before I had my knees replaced, I got great relief from the pain by using a rub on agent 'Jointritis'. Gave me relief for many hours - highly recommended. just don't get it anywhere near your eyes. It's fairly expensive but a little went along way.
-----Original Message----- >From: ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> >Subject: Ot; Just so you know... > >Last Friday I found the perfect way to clear my brain from the elephant >in the room ... > >I fell off of a wheely chair (office chair in my kitchen ) - The chair >has been tossed out.. it was not well balanced, and I was jsut sitting >on it and leaned forward to pick something up off the kitchen floor... >which slants a bit.. tried Not to fall (usually a bad idea) and the >chair threw me like a mechanical bull at a Texas bar... >I only slightly exagerate for color... sprained my lower back, hit the >back of my head on the kitchen sink.... this was Friday night a week ago... > >I piled an icepack on my goose egg and another on my back ... No broken >bones... I checked on line that the area of my head that got bumped was >a pretty low candidate to cause a concussion (about 4 inches above the >top of my left ear.) Ice wsa applied for about 3 hours to both areas, a >lot of words with friends ws played and the serious news of the day >ignored. Head wasn not very hurt and swelling went down quickly - but >the way I twisted my back was giving me a lot of pain. two Naproxin >Sodium pills were swallowed - I normally onlly take one if I hurt say 5 >or 6 on a scale of 10.. this was like 15 on a scale of 1 -10. > >Then I called a friend who I knew I wouldnt impose on by crying and >bitching to him, because he lives north of Boston, is wonderful at >"there, there" and pretty savvy medically... and another friend in NY >who is too imobile for his own problems to be able to come help. > >saturday I applied heat - I had some stuff here and a friend and >neighbor fetched more.. got out with a cane on MOnday with some >difficulty.. staye in for the worst weather on Tuesday, walked again on >Wed, and each day after... > >getting out of bed was intense .. the layered foam was too squishy... >again, helpful hands helped me remove a layer and roll it up in both my >main bed and the office twin... > >Last night was the first night I could get out of bed with only moderate >pain and today I walked about 1/2 a mile without cane... > >It was just so annoying because I had lost weight, had gotten a lovely >check up in December , hardly felt the knee arthritis and was in full >get things accomplished mode. > >Also had some weird stuff witht he computer but that seems to have been >nothing.. .. > >It will surely be a month or so before I'm really right again, as long >as I don't get too cocky and think I'm in better shape than I am... glad >it didn't require >hospitals or doctors or the like... > >There, theres appreciated. > >thanks for reading the rant > >ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
